What Is Amazon Silk?

Amazon Silk is a next-generation web browser available only on Kindle Fire. Built on a split
architecture that divides processing between the client and the Amazon cloud, Amazon Silk is
designed to create a faster, more responsive mobile browsing experience.

To minimize latency and page load times, Amazon Silk routes requests through remote proxy
servers powered by Amazon EC2. These cloud
servers provide high-performance connection speeds and computing power not normally
available to a mobile form factor.